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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6,· 1919.
日三十月九未已次全年人國資搴中
No. 17,792, 三拜禮號五月一十年九十壹百九千老英
BUSINESS NOTICES
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HUDSON, ESSEX, CHANDLER,
OVERLAND CARS
A consignment of HUDSON and ES8IX Carn expected shortly.
Cars for hire.. Lessons in driving at moderate Inclusive prices.
Orders may now be booked.
WATSON'S
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Cure a Cold in the Shortest Possible Time.
An Excellent Remedy For Neuralgia and Malarial Headache.
This excellent remedy is sent regularly from Hongkong to customers in England & elsewhere "abroad,
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AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.
"BILLY THE TWISTER" STARTS CAMPAIGN.
AN EX SOLDIER'S SUICIDE.
REPLY TO CHARGE OF PENSIONS
DELAYS.
Complaints of delay in the pay- meat of pensions to disabled soldiers were made by Mr. Alfred John Cat- termole, the secretary of the North London branch of the National Federation of Discharged Soldiers and Sailors, at an adjourned inquest, at the Southwark Corner’a. Court, in August kuss, on the body of John
Blake, 80, general dealer, of Ethel street, Lambeth, who jumped from Lambeth Bridge into the Thames and was drowned,
MELBOURNE, October 31. Mr. William Hughes, in opening his general election campaign at Bendigo, denounced the Australian Labour Party's attitude in the war, He said the only remedy for high prices was an increase of production and a reduction of paper currency. He announced that a royal commission on profiteering was being appointed and that a referendum would be taken Mr. Cattermole said that in April on the question in Australia, enabling profiteering and monopolies to be Blake complained that he could hat dealt with by commonwealth legislation. He declared that Bolshevism must get his pension. The witnem wrote: be fought and that justice must be done to the workers. The royal bree etters, to the Awarda Branch commission would try to devise better methods of ensuring payment of the Ministry of Pensions, at Chel- based on a living wage and adjusting the minimum wke automatises, but got to reply until four cally to the cost of living. The workers must be given an induce months afterwards.. Bake asked him ment to increase production while the rights of capital to its share must several times if the pension had be recognised. All myst combine to make strikes practically impossible.come, and secmed very worried about The government would give organised labour a legal status and authority it. The day before the inquest £5 and create a commonwealth industrial court to deal with federal indus was received, but the widow would tries. A commission would shortly be appointed to investigate not be able to have the money as the question of remodelling the whole incidence of commonwealth taxation, her husband was dead. He knew in order to place the burden upon the shoulders best able to bear it. Public of 150 cases of delay, which, ha at- debts, including those of the states, totalled £740,000,000 which must be tributed to the inefficiency of the met by direct taxation. The position demanded economy, enterprise, and staf at the Ministry of Pensions. development. He concluded by appealing eloquently to the patriotism of the electors.
WARNING TO TRENCHWOMEŃ.
AGAINST MARRYING CHINESE.
مجھے
PARIS, November 4 In view of the number of marriages between Chinese labourers and French women the government has issued a circular warning such women of the possibility of finding themselves in an inferior position as second wives on arriving in China.
SHAH IN LONDON.
IMPRESSIVE RECEPTION BY ROYALTY AND CROWD.
LONDON, October 31.
The Coroner: How do you sug gest the case was held up I often gas a letter from the Ministry of Pensions acknowledging an applică. tion, and then another letter stating that owing to the magnitude of the work and to not receiving a man's record, they are unable to deal with the case. That sometimes goes on for monthe. My caadid opinion is that if they would get rid of some of these young girls at the Ministry of Pensions we should get the cafles through much more quickly. A wit- ness in this case had to wait seren months for his pension, and has only just received it.
Mr. Frank Siddall, assistant divi- |sionat superintendent of the Pensions The Shah of Persia arrived at Dover from Paris this afternoon on the issuing Office, Baker-street, said that Royal yacht "Alexandra," escorted by destroyers. Prince Albert and a large Blake was discharged on March 18 and distinguished party received the Shah, who proceeded to London by and, pending the result of his appes! special train. He was met at Victoria by the King and the Duke of for a pension, he placed himself in the Connaught. During the procession to Buckingham Place the streets were minds of the War Pensions Commit Hined with troops and cheering crowds. The King gites a banquet to the tee on April 28. On April 24 they Shah this evening.
LABOUR IN HOLLAND,
THE HAGUE, October 31. The first Chamber unanimously adopted a bill providing for an eight hour day and a forty-five hour week.
ANOTHER GERMAN
BREACH.
airships to crash to the ground, crushing gondolas and engines, and twisting and bending the frame work in such a way that they can ZEPPELINS WRECKED TO EVADE be considered as good as sunk.
SURRENDER.
advanced him. £1 198. 24. a week for six weeks, the payment being or May 30. On June 25 a provi sional pension was issued of 125, 44. week, which Blake himself drew from the Post Office by means of On ring paper until August 5. August 12 he came to the Baker- street office and said he wanted his pension resumed. The War Pen- fons Committee wera telephoned, and another payment of 12s. 44. made to him......
There is reason to believe that a The Coroner: That seems reason- plan to prevent the Allies getting able, proper, and businesslike. Germery's Zeppelin feat, which the Zeppelins has been in contem The witness added that a book was was to have been surrendared to the plation in certain circles for summe afterwards issued authorising the Allies, has escaped in the same way time. Indications suggest that the payment of Blake's pension from the.. as the German ships at Scapa Flow. Government had no knowledge of the date of his discharge, and this was Apatriotic" daval officer; emulat-plan. The officer responsible is re- the amount that arrived after his ing the feat of Admiral von Reuter, ported to have disappeared, but death. ordered the cutting of the airships confirmation of this has not been The jury returned a verdict of cables in their sheds. Fifteen Zep- obtained.
"Suicide during temporary insanity. pelins are said to have been wrocked in this way,
Oze statement is that three of
the oldest and obsolets type in It is estimated that Gerinary had sheds near the Baltic coast are un- (at least sixteen super-Zeppelins in harmed. It is not yet certain whe
commission, and by the terms of the ther the Z71, the last and largest Peach Treaty these vessels were to: Zeppelin completed, and, one be handed over to Great Britain, those that attacked London, is fully dated and equipped, as soon among the airships wrecked. as hangars to receive them could be. built.
Despite the pretended ignorance of the German Government, the cry of Destroy the Zeppelins" has been heard in. Germany for many weeks past.
HOW IT WAS DONE.
11
CHARTER CLAIM
JUDGMENT.
"
Mr. Justice Brown delivered judg· Something akin to consternationment at Singapore on Oct. 17 in the reigned at the Foreign Office when case of Messrs. Wilson, Holgate and the report became known there It Company versus Mesars. Boustead is emphatically denied that the and Co. The defendants, acting as Goremment could have had any the agents of the Waterhouse Steam knowledge of it. On the contrary, ship Line, had issued shipping orders. officials saw only an attempt by car for the carriage of cargo by the tain elements to emborram and steamer" Nippon." On the arrival of make further trouble for the Govern- this vessel in Singapore the owners' ment..
agent, Messrs. Adamson, Gilfillan
Germany's fleet of Zeppelins will not swell the aerial fleets of the Allies. It has been destroyed. In answer to my request for a and Company, Ltd., refused to recog- Fired by patriotism and the de-statement, I was told at the Fornise these shipping orders, as the termination that Germany's victorieiga Office that immediately the owners denied that the vessel had ous enemies' should not have Ger matter became known there-the | been chartered to the Waterhouse many's aerial Beet, notwithstand Government began an inquiry, The Steamship Line or that there was any ing the provisions of the Pence deed, it was stated, could only have agreement between them and Water Treaty, a young naval officer, ac been that of an irresponsable indivi-house to carry the cargo booked on cording to what seems a reliable dual, who would be proceeded against behalf of the latter. Freights meantime report, emulated the example of a shon sa it could be ascertained had risen enormously and shippers Admirt von Reuter at Scapa Flow, who was involved.
mange had to re-ship at the increased rates.
TREATY AIR TERMS.
implied warranty of authority to act for Waterhouse or the owner. The judge held that Messrs. Boustead and
and caused most of the Zeppelins In Nationalist circles the act in The action was to recover from which were to be turned over to the condoned as patriotic, whatever the Messrs. Boustead and Co., the differ Allies to be sabotaged in their sheds. consequences, and is compared to eace in rates either as principal on About sixteen Zeppeline were left the sinking of the German Fleet at the contract or fur breach of an of the ninety built during the war, Scapa Flow. The Peace Treaty provides for their surrender to the Allies. One, the Article 198 of the Pouce TrostyCo. did act as the agents of Water 2. 72, is not completed, and is still particularly, stipulate that no dirigi-house, and that the contract was intact at the Zeppelin works at Fried-bles shall be retained by Germany between the plaintiffs and Water richshafez. The other fifteen were Article 202 provides that all house, and further that the defend- at varios air harbours, chiefly in military and naval aeronaution ants had authority to act as the Northern Germany in the vicinity of material, with the exception of 100 agents of the Waterhouse Steamship the North Sea and Baltic coaste. seaplanes allowed to Germany for line. Judgment was therefore given Ten or twelve of the latter are said the purpose of locating submarine for the defendants, with coats. Mr G. to have been sabotaged, and for all mines, must be delivered to the Stevensappeared for the plaintiffs, and practical purposes are as good a Governments of the Allied and Mr. D. Parsons for the defendants. destroyed.", are
Associhted Powers on the coming into force of the treaty; delivery to be completed within three months at etch places as the mid Govern- menta may direct
THIN EXCUBE.
The navel officer, whose name has not yet been made known, acting, it is alleged, entirely on his own
EARLY COLDS.
DE careful of the colds you take at
d BEC the year. They are responsibility and initiative; e mid The material to be delivered in particularly dangerous. A neglected. to have ordered the cables by which des Dirigibles able to tale the old may mean winter long cold. Tako the huge Zeppelins were suspended sir, being manufactured, repaired, Chamberlain's Cough Remedy at once. in their sheds to be cut, coming the or assembled.”
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